JACKSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 18225.

336 F.2d 579 (1964)

Henry W. JACKSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William E. Rollow (appointed by this court), Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Max Frescoln, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and Joseph A. Lowther, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellant was tried without a jury and convicted of narcotic violations. 26 U.S.C. § 4704(a); 21 U.S.C. § 174. The principal issue presented here concerns his right to cross-examine a police officer about the reliability of the informant on whose report he was arrested.

The Government's evidence was that two police officers were approached on the street by one Ethel Gaskins who told them that a man of a certain description was then sitting...

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